David Zwirner is pleased to present a group exhibition opening this September at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Border(line) will bring together artists from the gallery program alongside thought-provoking young voices from Asia and its diaspora.
Borders are inescapable thresholds that demarcate contemporary life, separating nations, public and private spaces, and conceptual and psychological states of being. A seminal video work by the Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist Francis Alÿs, serves as a thematic anchor to the exhibition. In Painting/Retoque (2008), the artist repaints the fading median strips of a road that crosses the Panama Canal, a gesture that underscores the mutable and arbitrary nature of such boundaries. Since 1997, Alÿs has completed a number of projects exploring sociopolitical conflict in border regions that demonstrate his distinctive and poetic approach to art making as a means to foster understanding around some of our era’s most pressing issues. Among the most referenced artists by his peers, Alÿs’s wide-ranging body of work has had a profound global influence.
Additional works by David Zwirner artists will include those by Josef Albers, Raoul De Keyser, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, all of whom explore the idea of frames, horizons, and boundaries from cross-generational and transcultural perspectives.
Border(line) further invites contemporary artists with diverse creative practices from Hong Kong, China, and across Asia to expand the concept of borders, creating an opportunity for global connection and exchange.
